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Glovo courier delivery service is planning to launch its service in 20-25 more cities of Ukraine in 2021.

“If we talk about expansion in Ukraine, we will launch our service in cities with a population of more than 100,000 residents. From the nearest announcements, we will be present in Drohobych and Truskavets in June. This year, I think, we will be present in 20-25 more cities. There are satellites of Kyiv that are very interesting to enter,” General Manager at Glovo Ukraine Dmytro Rasnovsky said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said that during the pandemic, a large number of people began to work from home, respectively, the number of orders in satellite cities and on the outskirts of large cities also increased.

He also said that about 10,000 couriers are actively working in the company based on the weekly activity metric.

Glovo service was established in Barcelona and today operates in more than 650 cities in 22 countries on three continents: Europe, Central and South America, and sub-Saharan Africa. More than 2.5 million people worldwide use Glovo delivery service every month, orders are delivered by more than 51,000 couriers, and the number of associated partners reaches 25,000.

In Ukraine, Glovo delivery service began operating in October 2018 and is represented in 29 cities.